Air Crash Investigation - Alarming Silence (S09E02)

Northwest Airlines Flight 255 was a flight that originated at MBS International Airport in Saginaw, Michigan, and was scheduled to terminate at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California, with intermediate stops at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Romulus, Michigan, near Detroit, and at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, Arizona. The flight crashed after takeoff in Romulus on August 16, 1987, at about 20:46 EDT (8:46 p.m. local time, 00:46 UTC August 17), killing all of the crew and passengers except for a 4-year-old girl, Cecelia Cichan, who sustained serious injuries, according to a report by the FAA's Office of Aviation Research. Flight 255 is the deadliest sole-survivor aircraft crash in United States aviation history.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Air Crash Investigation
• Air Emergency
• Mayday
• ACI
• Northwest Airlines
• Flight 255
• MBS International Airport
• Romulus
• Detroit
• MD-82
• McDonnell Douglas MD-82
• N312RC
• Pilot Error
• Cecelia Cichan

[luckysod04]

@ushivasiddharrth We can't completely trust computers to handle our banking, why the hell would we give them complete control of our safety?

[BarGerMarMeyer]

I guess you can say Capt. Maus became a Deadmau5.

[SuperWindowseven]

i love airplanes i love films with airplanes

[dilwich123]

Never get in a plane with a captain called Ken Dodd.

[hollycamolly]

Oh it's an MD...why am I not surprised :-/

[racygal427]

daybree...??? debris. lol

[klmguy96]

you can see at they forgott the flaps

[Tyler99Wood]

@lovebeer19 NO THUMBS UP

[hdyudu]

anything past 15 g's is risky and could turn into a death sentence just even 8 g's is enuff

to sricken off blood flow to the brain aka as black out

[transdrole]

The aircraft CAN take off without flaps but you'd need a much higher ground speed and a whole lot more runway.

[beautyquenn101]

@hdyudu

I've driven past that a bizillion times.

[beautyquenn101]

@01Gens

If you don't believe in god thats fine, I'm not going to piss all over you heck I don't give two craps who you believe in. However this person did, this person does think this girl is special and god wanted her to live, so don't piss all over his belief.